WDC_WD1002FAEX-00Y9A0 not showing 6.0 Gb/s speed on MSI P55-GD85 Sata 6 controller

My hard drive doesn’t report as 6.0 Gb/s in the BIOS. I’ve heard of a utlity that fixes this, WDSSPEED, but I can’t find it, and am unsure how to use it. Thanks for the help.

Check if the hard drive has a jumper on pins 5/6, that will also downgrade the speed. Also check if the link below helps.

http://community.wdc.com/t5/Desktop-Portable-Drives/1TB-FAEX-reporting-incorrect-SATA-speed-and-slow/td-p/109184

Jumper settings

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/search/1/a_id/5387#jumper

No jumpers installed. The links for the WDSPEED are dead, thats why I’m asking for it here.

bump

Its possible there may be a logical reason for that…

http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/6592/~/internal-sata-6.0-gb%2Fs-drives-are-not-detected-by-some-motherboards

after reading that i thought well what if that is happening to you instead of being forced into a black screen problem as mentioned in that article.

maybe contact support about the issue.

solution 1 says

which might explain why this is one tool i never heard of before.